Dev jobs up 10% YoY while other jobs down 5.8%. What do you see on the ground?

[mrborgen]

According to data from FRED, US software development job listings are up 10% YoY from Feb 2025 to Feb 2026.

In the same period, overall job postings are down 5.8%.

I find this striking as these two graphs have directionally mirrored each other since 2020. It's only the last year they seem to be diverging. (Software jobs both rose and crashed harder as a consequence of the ZIRP/covid era, but if you squint the two graphs are quite similar).

This is quite the narrative violation, as software is one of the professions most often assumed to be eaten up by AI. But it looks like there's just so much software to build and maintain that the software dev job market is healing faster than the overall job market.

I'm curious to hear what you all are seeing on the ground? Have hiring at your companies started picking up since last year?

Sources: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS See both graphs side-by-side for Feb 2025-Feb 2026: https://x.com/twitter/status/2025890393166917857

[ghostinshell515]

Hilarious - where did you possibly get that data? And they talk about AI hallucinating

[ghostinshell515]

Hilarious and they say AI hallucinates